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you must understand something John, we have alot of what many call "American Libertarians" who are sort of a mix of ancap and minarchists, they view any taxation of business/the wealthy as theft and they view any sort of social saftynets/programs paid for with tax dollars as theft.

they also tend to be the ones who blame high costs 100% on regulation, and insist that without regulation and taxation businesses would do what was best for consumers thanks to "market pressure"

in reality what many of these people dream of is a return to the gilded age, back before regulation (safty,environmental,ect) they dream of a day when they could exploit the poor/working class.

I have even had them on more then a few occations explain to me how we could also fix education by removing child labor laws and putting kids to work for 3rd world sweatshop wages, and giving them the option to spend their earnings on an education or something else....though i dont know when the kids would have time to take classes seeing as its quite likely they would be working 16hrs shifts 7 days a week 365days a year....

sorry, but my view is, yes our current govt sucks but I really dont see how removing what little we have keeping corporations under at least a little control for no control is going to fix anything.

I also dont see how not taxing those with the most is in any way going to benefit society....but then again, randians/randoids (american libertarians/teatarians) dont really believe in a social contract or society, they just wana do whatever makes them happy and wealthy.....to hell with anybody else......"the virtue of selfishness" is something they believe strongly in....and the evil of altruism(both things rand wrote about...)

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Wyden is one of the few in office today you could consider to be a true statesman rather then being a pure politician, rather then serving corporate interests at the expense of thi voters he tries to do whats best for his voters....i respect that.

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I love the idea of even just doing this to congress, have sites filter for congress and setup pages that load saying "to get full access to this site you must pay a fee of $x per month, without this access your access to this site will be limited, pages may load slowly, you may not be able to watch streaming videos or listen to streaming audio(pod casts)

do that shit to congress, let them see what it would be like if the net went the way the major isp's want.

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I love the idea of even just doing this to congress, have sites filter for congress and setup pages that load saying "to get full access to this site you must pay a fee of $x per month, without this access your access to this site will be limited, pages may load slowly, you may not be able to watch streaming videos or listen to streaming audio(pod casts)

do that shit to congress, let them see what it would be like if the net went the way the major isp's want.

As somebody who was falsely accused of rape in highschool, let me tell you, its no joke, and it is a big deal, to this day, background checks show the arrests and charges...hard to find a decent job with that shit hanging over you....

mind shes since admitted she lied, long story but...these situations suck....i view them as the legal system raping innocent people...

fucking bullshit....total fucking bullshit infact....i can see why so many people accused of shit like this suicide...

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been there, beta testing and helping fix UI bugs, was even sent a copy of scaleform years ago(dont have it anymore) to help try and fix some resolution based issues...eventually it turned out to be easier to scrap the whole UI they had made and start over using a different method(still using scale form but dif method that didnt require resolution specific tweaks)

and yeah it can be a pain, but as you said, take a couple days, week as a side project.

most developers recycle models, animations, textures with minor changes so, really their excuse seems more like lazyness to everybody i have talked to.

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ubi im sure has models and animations used in other ubi titles they could recycle, as most game devs/publishers on that level tend to do(infact in some beta test circles its been a decade long running joke when we spot what game they copied the animations and models from..in some cases without even making minor changes to the models and just skinning the clothing parts....(kid you not, sometimes its quite noticeable) )

the cost isnt really high enough to justify not doing it from the start, if the games got heavy single player/campaign and they left out females till the end though.....major cost and pain...and major fuckup, i mean shit its 2014....and they are acting like its the late 90's/early 2k's.....but even then alot of games had female major characters.....or heros!!!

Re: Re: I think people are being a little too quick to dismiss Ubi's defense...

I have been beta testing for decades now, and have had this conversation with dev's more then once, female models/characters are not that costly to add if they dont have a huge role in single player, or if they are player models, if they have high interactivity is the same as adding another male character, and cost game to game varies widely, if they start out with the plan to have female characters the only real "extra cost" is voice acting and lets me honest in most games they could pay an inturn to do the voices and if she didnt work out try another.....they dont have to hire pro voice actors....some of teh best games i ever played had voice acting by people who worked in the company and where conscripted to voice a role :)

Re: Re: I think people are being a little too quick to dismiss Ubi's defense...

I have been beta testing for decades now, and have had this conversation with dev's more then once, female models/characters are not that costly to add if they dont have a huge role in single player, or if they are player models, if they have high interactivity is the same as adding another male character, and cost game to game varies widely, if they start out with the plan to have female characters the only real "extra cost" is voice acting and lets me honest in most games they could pay an inturn to do the voices and if she didnt work out try another.....they dont have to hire pro voice actors....some of teh best games i ever played had voice acting by people who worked in the company and where conscripted to voice a role :)

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clearly mr.know-it-all PaulT you dont know about tm repository, its bee around quite a while now, its not mine, its just a site i find amusing, I give up trying to discuss with you because, nothing i say has any validitiy to you, its all"bullshit"

like your implying i said you have to use the command line for everything in linux....i never said or implied that but, hey anything you can type out to discredit somebody whos opinion and experiance you dont agree with/like huh?

you should take it as a win, that i have accepted that linux is great for the desktop, has ZERO flaws and is just the best OS ever, hell even for gaming, you just gotta dick around for a few hours to get new games working 3/4 of the time thats no big deal!!!!

there are never any dependancy problems or driver problems, everything just works.